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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: When did this become linux.advocacy Date: 24 Jun 1995 13:07:32 +0200 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3sgrlk$74b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <marcus.114.00E9749F@ccelab.iastate.edu> <3s9vmk$f9p@agate.berkeley.edu> <3sdlkf$tl3@felix.junction.net> <3sel20$fmg@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Nick Kralevich <nickkral@octans.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >I agree. On cross fertilization: One day, try the following. >Download both the Linux kernel > ... >and the FreeBSD kernel ... >On the FreeBSD kernel, type "grep -i linux `find . -name '*' -print`" >and on the Linux kernel type "grep -i freebsd `find . -name '*' -print`". >There is about 4-10 times more references to Linux in the FreeBSD >source code then there are references to FreeBSD in the Linux >source code. Interesting. To be fair, you should use "grep -i bsd `find . -name '*' -print`". Anyway, this is kinda silly at all. Re-usage of code is a Good Thing [tm] (so it's rather awful that the Linux folks appear to be less interested in taking over things from FreeBSD), and given the fact that the GPL is considered to be a show-stopper for many things where (Free)BSD would like to be present it's rather a good sign that there's a lot of Linux code now in FreeBSD despite of this. (Please, *NO* copyright debates here. There are points for both sides, and we all do know them.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)